Archive for the 'Geometric Art Details' Category

In recent months I’ve been immersed in my new computational genetics job. I have been making new art: it’s only the “show and tell” part that has been neglected. Here’s a piece from this period that I like.

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Imagining seeing it for the first time, totally out [...]

Over the past week I’ve been experimenting with doing more manipulation of the source image before transforming it geometrically — increasing the color saturation and using brush effects. It started with a series of English Setter pictures that I enhanced with a watercolor technique. Then, using similar techniques, I tried manipulating the color [...]

Coming back from vacation it has been hard to find time to make designs, but last night I was expecting to play table tennis, only to discover that they were sanding the floors. So having a free evening, I made this new design. It’s another attempt to deal with a fundamental quality of [...]

Here I’ve arranged it into a nine-sided pattern with six, four and five-sided motifs. I like the way the stick and its shadow provide a strong border, and the nine sides give a definite this-side-up quality to it. While the pattern has distinct concentric zones, the orange shadow helps tie them all together. [...]

In an earlier post I alluded to the fact that source material with the highest connectivity tends to have a limited range of color. Here’s an excellent example. I took this picture of a pile of brush when we were camping in Maine. Neutral colors but lots of geometric possibilities provided by [...]

I keep discovering byproducts of my tools that allow new geometric effects. For this design I started with a black and white checkered design and transformed it into a pattern of eights in black and white. Then I went back and colored the checkered design, using dark colors for the black panels and lighter ones [...]

This weekend I’ve been developing a template for round patterns. Overall they are 16 sided, with three eight-sided designs along each “spoke”. For variety, alternate spokes have variations on the eight-sided designs. For the first time I explicitly set out to design a template that would be easy to trim around the edges, so the [...]

Lately I’ve been imagining what someone would like on their living room wall.
Large. Colorful. Beautiful. Intriguing, but not so demanding that it dominates the room. Something you find new beauty in as time goes on. Visitors point out aspects you’ve never noticed. With a story behind it, perhaps.
Then I thought about what kind of geometric [...]